Monthly Archives: June 2011

ASHFIELD, MA – The Massachusetts Broadband Institute (MBI), a state agency working to extend affordable high-speed Internet access throughout Massachusetts, awarded a $50,000 grant to WiredWest to advance last-mile broadband solutions. WiredWest, a coalition of 47 towns in western Massachusetts, will use the grant along with in-kind services and additional funding to complete its planning […]

TAOS, NM – Kit Carson Electric Cooperative (KCEC) announced a strategic partnership with integrator Pulse Broadband to build a fiber-to-the-home network in northern New Mexico. Preliminary work has already started on the nearly 3,000-mile network, which will provide voice, video and Internet services to the 29,000 homes and businesses in Taos, Colfax and Rio Arriba […]

SCOTTSDALE, AZ — HomePlug has emerged as the market leader for power line networking solutions, overcoming competition from other power line standards such as HD-PLC and UPA, says new research from In-Stat, which forecasts that HomePlug node shipments will surpass 30 million units by 2014. The HomePlug Alliance is seeking to solidify the technology’s lead […]

PHILADELPHIA – Are classroom lessons more exciting in 3D? XPAND 3D thinks so, and will make the case with its new XPAND 3D Educational Network, which will offer 3D instructional technology to schools at the K-12 and higher-education levels. “Educational institutions are continuing to adopt 3D technology into their classrooms as 3D is proving to […]

STOCKHOLM – Access equipment vendor Tilgin announced a full gigabit platform for home gateways. The new platform, Simba, will be the basis for Tilgin’s future gateway models – both integrated access devicees and media-centric home gateways with storage – and is designed to support what the company sees as the future requirements of home networking: […]

WELLINGBOROUGH, UK – Over-the-top (OTT) video subscription services will generate a cumulative $32 billion over the next five years, exceeding revenues from ad-hoc video rental and purchase services, according to a new report from IMS Research. With interest in the OTT market from consumer-electronics suppliers, pay-TV operators, Internet portal companies, DVD rental companies and large […]

WASHINGTON – Rural broadband deployment and adoption remains a top priority for the Obama Administration, according to a new report to Congress issued by the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The RUS loan and grant programs, which apparently succumbed to budget cuts a few months ago, have been partially restored, […]

MINNEAPOLIS — Over the course of the next two years, about 10,000 households in South Carolina will be connected to fiber by Farmers Telephone Cooperative (FTC), the country’s second-largest telephone cooperative. Residents along a 400-mile corridor of new fiber will realize the benefits of fiber-based communications for phone service, digital TV, high-speed Internet, security and […]

REGINA, CANADA and PARIS — SaskTel, the incumbent telecom provider in Saskatchewan, selected Alcatel-Lucent as the primary technology vendor for its fiber-to-the-premises program. SaskTel recently announced it would invest approximately $670 million in a seven-year program for next-generation broadband access. Between 2011 and 2017, the company will deploy FTTP using GPON technology in the nine […]